"To live and to act with a robustness and determination which approaches joyful intoxication, while suspended in he space-time moment, book-ended by the nothingness prior to one's existence and the nothingness that ever looms as the threat of one's own death, is a vital and visceral response to our own existential situation" (Carter, 2008, p. 103).

Work in Progress by Shelita Birchett Benash, 2014.

Hand formed ceramic prayer beads; a sculptural form I am compelled to make. This will be a lifetime expression for me. I feel it.